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. >> question, by the way, the word stimulous is apparently now not used. the president's job approval rating is low. historically so. did this week put president obama back on an upward track? pat buchanan. >> no it did not, john. there's no doubt he was in campaign mode and spoke more eloquently there. he mentioned john boehner and attacked him by name seven times and nobody in the country knows who john boehner is. secondly the mosque issue and the issue of the burning korans was a tremendous distraction all week. third, his proposal, some of which are interesting, credits like that. they are too little, they are too late. frankly some of his rhetoric, they treat me like a dog is getting pity me, it doesn't come off well. >> what is the political part on obama's part? >> you have to put a face on the opposition and mr. boehner is a pretty good face. he has been in the congress since 1990. he was part of the gingrich revolution in 1995. he was video taped on the house floor handing out checks from the tobacco industry to members while they were discussing
. >> question, by the way, the word stimulous is apparently now not used. the president's job approval rating is low. historically so. did this week put president obama back on an upward track? pat buchanan. >> no it did not, john. there's no doubt he was in campaign mode and spoke more eloquently there. he mentioned john boehner and attacked him by name seven times and nobody in the country knows who john boehner is. secondly the mosque issue and the issue of the burning korans was...
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and i think all of us are engaging now in monday morning quarterbacking. we look back now and say, gosh, we didn't get the health care plan we wanted, that we thought he was going to give us. what went wrong? if you look at the "audacity of hope" obama never claims he thinks it's possible for the u.s. to have a national health care system patterned on northern european models. he said americans are too happy with their own insurance plans and their own doctors. >> rose: and during the campaign he never argued for a public option. >> exactly. so i think this is a fantasy that i think those of us on the left projected on to him that he never embraced himself. instead of doing what clinton did and saying very early, "this is what we're going to do," he wanted to see what would happen as the legislative process unfolded. it didn't unfold as he thought it would unfold, but i think it's a little too easy for us to look back with 20/20 hindsight and say how naive he was. this is the way he's operated ever since he was a student in college, at law school, in the c
and i think all of us are engaging now in monday morning quarterbacking. we look back now and say, gosh, we didn't get the health care plan we wanted, that we thought he was going to give us. what went wrong? if you look at the "audacity of hope" obama never claims he thinks it's possible for the u.s. to have a national health care system patterned on northern european models. he said americans are too happy with their own insurance plans and their own doctors. >> rose: and...
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disaster in us history. that's not an accident. >> narrator: critics say bp has a very bad record. it's a company that has grown too fast and taken on too many risks. this is a story about ambition and its consequences. to investigate bp's corporate history, we started here in texas city, the site of the company's largest and one of its most troubled refineries. >> hi, don. my name is abrahm lustgarten. i'm a reporter with propublica. i'm calling you because i'm working on an in-depth piece about the history of bp and its management culture. >> narrator: bp had an accident here in 2005 where 15 people died in an explosion and fire. 170 more were injured. afterwards, there were charges that bp's management valued profits more than safety. we came to the refinery hoping to talk to managers. >> so this is all bp, right? >> yeah. >> narrator: bp declined. >> and the explosion would have happened, then, on the far side of all this big equipment. >> right. >> narrator: the 1,200-acre refinery was acquired by bp in
disaster in us history. that's not an accident. >> narrator: critics say bp has a very bad record. it's a company that has grown too fast and taken on too many risks. this is a story about ambition and its consequences. to investigate bp's corporate history, we started here in texas city, the site of the company's largest and one of its most troubled refineries. >> hi, don. my name is abrahm lustgarten. i'm a reporter with propublica. i'm calling you because i'm working on an...
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. >> good to have you with us under "bbc world news." stay with us, if you can. a spanish man has undergone the world's first full face transplant, going before the cameras for the first time. nicolas sarkozy is describing as barbaric the murder of a french national was captured by al qaeda three months ago. from paris, kristin frazier has the report. >> a 78-year-old retired engineer who had gone to north africa to help children, about it while working on a school project in april. last week forces supported by the french army raided a terrorist camps in neighboring mali. six gunmen were killed but mr. genco was not found. the press was told over the weekend that he could have been dead for several weeks, although today mr. sarkozy spoke only of cold-blooded murder. >> our compatriot taken by al qaeda, and held hostage. i condemn this barbarous act against innocent victim. >> the president has since held meetings with top security officials and urged his countrymen not to travel in the region where lawless border area exists. he had this morning for the terroris
. >> good to have you with us under "bbc world news." stay with us, if you can. a spanish man has undergone the world's first full face transplant, going before the cameras for the first time. nicolas sarkozy is describing as barbaric the murder of a french national was captured by al qaeda three months ago. from paris, kristin frazier has the report. >> a 78-year-old retired engineer who had gone to north africa to help children, about it while working on a school project...
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he's clever enough once again not to use it. but once you start talking about people within islam beginning to speak up, to change it, that's... it's that type of thing. and he has got a point to the extent that he's right. there is a narrative which has grown up within islam of oppression, of the west being responsible for its many ills. and some of that is correct but a lot of it isn't and that's what i think he's trying to deal with. >> rose: he believed that saddam had to be taken down, whether he had weapons of mass destruction or whether he maintained the potential to do it because of plans and... he also believed that if iran has nuclear weapons there's a possibility they'll fall into the hands of people who will use them. not iranians but whoever else. and that therefore you can not allow it. and he's prepared to say that if sanctions and diplomacy and everything else doesn't work then you have to have a military attack. >> again, i think he's coming out of his closet-- if i can put it that way-- more. he's saying things
he's clever enough once again not to use it. but once you start talking about people within islam beginning to speak up, to change it, that's... it's that type of thing. and he has got a point to the extent that he's right. there is a narrative which has grown up within islam of oppression, of the west being responsible for its many ills. and some of that is correct but a lot of it isn't and that's what i think he's trying to deal with. >> rose: he believed that saddam had to be taken...
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the dry districts are supporting us. the distribution is impartial. we send our trucks to localities that is the normal routine we do. >> thank you very much, indeed. there is massive need here. this area, we can still see areas submerged by water. with so many people affected, there are people who will leave here disappointed and there are millions like that across the country. >> yesterday, bbc world correspondent reported on the crippling food crisis in the west african state of niger. it has faced food shortages in 2005, but this report shows why lessons have not been learned. >> there's a severe food crisis in niger affecting about eight million people here. yet, look around the main market 1,000 kilometers south of the capital, and it's not obvious why. there's clearly plenty of food around, it's just that many can't afford it. and another puzzling fact, that the lifestock market nearby, cattle are being exported, mostly to trade with neighboring nigeria. this nigerrian businessman just bought a bull for nearly $700 u.s. to take back home and se
the dry districts are supporting us. the distribution is impartial. we send our trucks to localities that is the normal routine we do. >> thank you very much, indeed. there is massive need here. this area, we can still see areas submerged by water. with so many people affected, there are people who will leave here disappointed and there are millions like that across the country. >> yesterday, bbc world correspondent reported on the crippling food crisis in the west african state of...
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bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: 56 iraqis died in more than two dozen separate attacks across iraq today. they appeared to be coordinated. margaret warner has our report from iraq. >> warner: the targets of today's wave of violence: iraq's local government and police forces. no one claimed responsibility. the deadliest attack was in kut, 100 miles southeast of baghdad. a suicide bomber blew up his car inside a security barrier near the town's local council and police station. 19 people were killed-- 15 of them policemen, and 90 others were wounded. baghdad was also hit hard. in the city's qahira neighborhood, a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near a police
bnsf, the engine that connects us. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: 56 iraqis died in more than two dozen separate attacks across iraq today. they appeared to be...
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he's the founder of citizens for affordable energy. >> he join us us tonight. john, welcome to nightly business report. >> thank you. >> you predict $5 a gallon by 2012. why so high? >> all the conditions which led to $5 gasoline in california in 2008 have returned. except they've returned under a different setted of circumstances. now we have more asian growth and demand for crude oil than ever in history. our economy is recovering, our demand is back to where it was basically in 2008. combine the asian demand with the fact that in this country we have done nothing. we learned no lessons from the 2008 high price period. in fact, we've gone the opposite direction. we've put a moratorium on drilling. we lifted the moratorium on drilling in the gulf of mexico, but granting no permits. the secretary of the interior has moved the next five year leasing plan to 2017. this administration has basically said we're not going to do oil. it's very difficult to do coal as well. >> tom: john, you talk about supply and demand there. demand from asia especially demand from th
he's the founder of citizens for affordable energy. >> he join us us tonight. john, welcome to nightly business report. >> thank you. >> you predict $5 a gallon by 2012. why so high? >> all the conditions which led to $5 gasoline in california in 2008 have returned. except they've returned under a different setted of circumstances. now we have more asian growth and demand for crude oil than ever in history. our economy is recovering, our demand is back to where it was...
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stay with us if you can. still to come. ♪do not stop believing >> do the young voters still believe in president obama? we will visit a glee club ahead of elections. the driver of an underground train pulled up in the london bombings in 2005 as told the inquest he tried to make a mayday call but his cab radio was not working. he had to use his cell phone. >> the driver of the train described the last part of the explosion and then what he called the chilling call for help from the passengers. he said it still makes his blood run cold when he thinks about it. he attempted to make a mayday call on the radio in his cab. it was not working. he used his mobile phone to raise the alarm. he turned off the power and help to evacuate hundreds of passengers to sink along the tracks. above ground, the station supervisor was making increasingly desperate calls for help to the underground network control center. >> we have smoke and customers on the track. please get as many ambulances as you can. we have injuries. >> she disclosed th
stay with us if you can. still to come. ♪do not stop believing >> do the young voters still believe in president obama? we will visit a glee club ahead of elections. the driver of an underground train pulled up in the london bombings in 2005 as told the inquest he tried to make a mayday call but his cab radio was not working. he had to use his cell phone. >> the driver of the train described the last part of the explosion and then what he called the chilling call for help from the...
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i do not want them using my name to take advantage of people. the italian justice system is notoriously slow, but for george clooney's adoring fans, it can take as long as it once it gives them another chance to see their idol in person. bbc news. >> it is the biggest festival of classical music in the world. royal albert hall will host the bbc proms. a lot of instruments to shift in and out. we were there as the orchestra was moving in. >> it is final rehearsal for prom #1. >> it is a huge orchestra. 100, are around 100 people. >> as you can imagine, getting everything out the door is one of classical music's bigger jobs. this is the harmonium. there are eight double basses, and 10 cello's. all of this has to go through onto the stage. 125-piece orchestra. the key is to get everything in the right place. and intact. take this heart. careful there. it took three and a half years to make this, and there are only seven like it in the world. >> i was petrified because i have only had my own harp in my own vehicle. it, it was scary. >> and then the
i do not want them using my name to take advantage of people. the italian justice system is notoriously slow, but for george clooney's adoring fans, it can take as long as it once it gives them another chance to see their idol in person. bbc news. >> it is the biggest festival of classical music in the world. royal albert hall will host the bbc proms. a lot of instruments to shift in and out. we were there as the orchestra was moving in. >> it is final rehearsal for prom #1....
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and they would use anybody as a partner. they joined, they embraced al qaeda. >> rose: now tony blair makes this point. he says that if al qaeda had not come in and if iran had not come in it was manageable. >> i don't agree with that. i mean, certainly they were malevolent players, very malevolent players and many of the most spectacular, as the american military called them. i didn't like that phrase, spectacular attacks, spectacular to you and me means fire works at night. but you know what i mean by spectacular attacks. suicide bombings which killed 150, 200 people at a time were al qaeda linked. but the enablers were the saddam fedayeen, the saddam insurgency. they were very closely related to one another. even if, for the sake of argument, there had been no osama bin laden and there can be no al qaeda and there had been a benign government in iran-- and there were none of those-- >> rose: and there was no help with iran. >> they still would have faced a really serious and pro pacted and viers insurgency in iraq. it wou
and they would use anybody as a partner. they joined, they embraced al qaeda. >> rose: now tony blair makes this point. he says that if al qaeda had not come in and if iran had not come in it was manageable. >> i don't agree with that. i mean, certainly they were malevolent players, very malevolent players and many of the most spectacular, as the american military called them. i didn't like that phrase, spectacular attacks, spectacular to you and me means fire works at night. but...
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water boarding was used in the integration of terrorist suspects. this induces the feeling of suffering and drowning but mr. bush was assured that it was not torture and it was legal and right. >> you used it on three people. >> to gain valuable information to help that country and this was the right thing to do. >> he was asked if khalid sheikh mohammed, the man thought to be behind the 9/11 attacks should be watered boarded. he responded, damn right. he believes that this also prevent the attacks in the uk. >> he did not believe that he was authorized to torture. that is clear from his book, is statements, his statements at the time. he also believed that there was many many lives saved and plots foiled. >> on iraq, mr. bush defended his decision to go to war. he called the moment on the aircraft carrier and mistake where the mission accomplished banner seemed to ignore the coming chaos. he also was regretful that no weapons of mass destructions were found. >> apologizing would say that the decision was a wrong decision and i don't believe it was
water boarding was used in the integration of terrorist suspects. this induces the feeling of suffering and drowning but mr. bush was assured that it was not torture and it was legal and right. >> you used it on three people. >> to gain valuable information to help that country and this was the right thing to do. >> he was asked if khalid sheikh mohammed, the man thought to be behind the 9/11 attacks should be watered boarded. he responded, damn right. he believes that this...
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he tried to use ... it struck me, the one unifying element in that whole national experience were the troops. the troops became the center piece of moving from iraq to the economy. i mean.... >> lehrer: through afghanistan. >> and then to the economy. we had to show the same kint of mettle and dedication and courage that they had shown here at home. we owed it to them to do it. but in answer to your question, jim, what did lincoln say at gettysburg? a little note the world won't long remember. he was excessively modest in his own words. i can't imagine that this speech will be learned by elementary school kids. >> lehrer: just to not pick up on that. david, the idea that the the president, you know, this is a war without surrender , ceremonies, and that we've had a lot of those. is he essentially saying we have to get used to that? this is the way modern wars will be ... have been and will be. is that something.... >> not necessarily true. i mean yugoslavia there was a winner and a loser. i'm not sure he
he tried to use ... it struck me, the one unifying element in that whole national experience were the troops. the troops became the center piece of moving from iraq to the economy. i mean.... >> lehrer: through afghanistan. >> and then to the economy. we had to show the same kint of mettle and dedication and courage that they had shown here at home. we owed it to them to do it. but in answer to your question, jim, what did lincoln say at gettysburg? a little note the world won't...
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like many animals, the use movement as part of the courtship ritual. scientists say the same it will be true of people. they found that those who dance well are healthier. it is an age-old way to meet someone. but now is showing -- it has been shown scientifically that watching someone dance may be one of the best ways u.s. as a potential problem. it is official. menu brush up on their moves can stand out on the dance floor. bbc news. >> you want to know, done here? yes, i have seen him dance, and he is ok. more on facebook and twitter. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold. get the top stories from around the globe and click to play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, and union bank. >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corp
like many animals, the use movement as part of the courtship ritual. scientists say the same it will be true of people. they found that those who dance well are healthier. it is an age-old way to meet someone. but now is showing -- it has been shown scientifically that watching someone dance may be one of the best ways u.s. as a potential problem. it is official. menu brush up on their moves can stand out on the dance floor. bbc news. >> you want to know, done here? yes, i have seen him...
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one out of town of us are not been that all. it appears we are giving up a chemical that asks us. the next challenge is the holy grail of insect repellent. >> a set of false teeth worn by winston churchill as he led britain to victory in the second world war have been sold at auction. >> on the seas and oceans, we shall fight. we shall fight with growing strength in the air. >> the unmistakeable words of winston churchill. instant -- inspirational and instantly recognizable. churchill had a natural speech impediment, giving him a distinctive voice, which was a crucial tool in winning the second world war. an unlikely weapon, a set of gold dentures specifically designed to preserve his list and keep his voice faltered on the airwaves. -- but all turned on the airways. made by a young dental -- un- altered on the airwaves. made by a young dental technician. >> his papers were torn up in front of him. churchill said you are going nowhere, you are saying here. he was given the job for many years. they had been in a drawer and i wanted to show them to the wider public. >> the only othe
one out of town of us are not been that all. it appears we are giving up a chemical that asks us. the next challenge is the holy grail of insect repellent. >> a set of false teeth worn by winston churchill as he led britain to victory in the second world war have been sold at auction. >> on the seas and oceans, we shall fight. we shall fight with growing strength in the air. >> the unmistakeable words of winston churchill. instant -- inspirational and instantly recognizable....
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and have faith in us. even though it's getting more and more violent, if we push forward, we can succeed. >> woodruff: valdez was an interesting background. he was born in texas. he played high school football. tell us more about that. >> yes. by all accounts he grew up in a very middle class environment in laredo, texas. he went on to become a small- time marijuana dealer on the northern side of the border in the u.s., in texas. then he got in with the mexican cartels and really took off from there. his ability to move between the two worlds was quite effective. officials here say that when he was captured yesterday, he was moving a ton of cocaine into the united states. he moved very rapidly through the ranks. originally he was with one cartel and then when the bell tran-lavas broke away he came with him and was one of their leaders of a group of hitmen that they had called called loz negros. he's known as one of the most brutal men in this drug war in a drug war in which tens of thousands of people have
and have faith in us. even though it's getting more and more violent, if we push forward, we can succeed. >> woodruff: valdez was an interesting background. he was born in texas. he played high school football. tell us more about that. >> yes. by all accounts he grew up in a very middle class environment in laredo, texas. he went on to become a small- time marijuana dealer on the northern side of the border in the u.s., in texas. then he got in with the mexican cartels and really...
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they didn't pay a lot of attention to us. in fact i hardly ever heard anything reported even in a secret meeting that i didn't read in the "washington post" within 48 hours. it seemed to me to be a waste of time. if anything, i think it's gotten worse since. >> warner: how about you, john mclaughlin, from sitting as an agency head, how did oversight look to you? >> well, the first thing i would say is it's very important that we have good oversight. i want to make clear that's a goal and an objective i support. oversight worked pretty well in the 1980s. sometime in the 1990s it began to mirror the rest of congress, mirror the way other committees worked. it caught the spirit of partisan politics that we see elsewhere in the congress. the committees discovered television. the partisan spirit that infected them has, for example, i think, prevented them now for the fifth year unless they make a breakthrough for the fifth year in coming to an agreement on a bill authorizing intelligence budget. the importance of that is that's on
they didn't pay a lot of attention to us. in fact i hardly ever heard anything reported even in a secret meeting that i didn't read in the "washington post" within 48 hours. it seemed to me to be a waste of time. if anything, i think it's gotten worse since. >> warner: how about you, john mclaughlin, from sitting as an agency head, how did oversight look to you? >> well, the first thing i would say is it's very important that we have good oversight. i want to make clear...
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either we will be able to use it to stop the flow, or we will be able to use it to capture almost all of the oil until the relief well is done. but we're not going to know for certain which approach makes sense until additional data is in. >> reporter: at the same time, the president cautioned that the work is far from over. >> i think it's important that we don't get ahead of ourselves here. you know, one of the problems with having this camera down there is that, when the oil stops gushing, everybody feels like we're done. and we're not. we won't be done until we actually know that we've killed the well and that we have a permanent solution in place. >> reporter: for its part, b.p. said it was "encouraged". it said pressure is slowly rising inside the 75-ton cap, and there's no evidence that it's causing any new leaks under the sea floor. in a conference call, company vice president kent wells said, "the pressures we've seen so far are consistent with the engineering analysis work that b.p. has done. it's been a very steady build." still, the oil giant was keeping a close watch on t
either we will be able to use it to stop the flow, or we will be able to use it to capture almost all of the oil until the relief well is done. but we're not going to know for certain which approach makes sense until additional data is in. >> reporter: at the same time, the president cautioned that the work is far from over. >> i think it's important that we don't get ahead of ourselves here. you know, one of the problems with having this camera down there is that, when the oil...
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give us something concrete that allows us to see an impact. >> okay. let's take the recovery act. the fiscal stimulus that is much criticized. the maximum benefit of that fiscal stimulus through the tax cuts of the tim lus and through the spending increases hit their apex last sumner june, july and august of last summer. and that is precisely when the recession ended. the exact precise timing. so that, i think, is some evidence, at least it is very suggestive that the stimulus, the recovery act was very important to bringing an end to the great recession. >> brown: john taylor, what do you see coming from that stimulus? >> when you look at the specific things that were done, so sending checks to people, to jump-start consumption. you look at the checks sent out, and you don't see consumption jump-starting or moving. in other words, it didn't have the effect that it was advertised to have. and i say the recovery is starting earlier, quite frankly, the panic in the fall of 2008 was behind us by december, january. and also i would say the recovery that we had and unfortunately it's n
give us something concrete that allows us to see an impact. >> okay. let's take the recovery act. the fiscal stimulus that is much criticized. the maximum benefit of that fiscal stimulus through the tax cuts of the tim lus and through the spending increases hit their apex last sumner june, july and august of last summer. and that is precisely when the recession ended. the exact precise timing. so that, i think, is some evidence, at least it is very suggestive that the stimulus, the...
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captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening, and thanks for joining us. sues gasusie gharib is on assignment. i'm joined by my colleague, suzanne pratt. we have two big stories. ben bernanke's economic outlook, and the president signing financial regulatory bill into law. >> suzanne: stocks tumbled as he warned congress. the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain. >> tom: that does not mean that the fed is changing its forecast. darren gersh picks up the story. >> reporter: no, ben bernanke is not expecting the economy to drop back into recession, but economists euphemistically call a double dip. but he had bad news for those who are out of work. unemployment is coming down more slowly than he and his colleagues had had expected, and will remain well over 7% for 2.5 years. add that to somewhat tighter credit rules and you get this. >> most participants viewed uncertainly about the growth for employment as greater has normal. >> reporter: but some of the uncertainty may be temporary. the home buyer tax credit ended in april, as did most of the econom
captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening, and thanks for joining us. sues gasusie gharib is on assignment. i'm joined by my colleague, suzanne pratt. we have two big stories. ben bernanke's economic outlook, and the president signing financial regulatory bill into law. >> suzanne: stocks tumbled as he warned congress. the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain. >> tom: that does not mean that the fed is changing its forecast. darren gersh picks up the story....
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they don't take care of us. so we better feed ourselves. now through porous borders and the defectors from north korea, maybe up to 20,000 in south koreas, basically north koreans are learning that they have to change. >> warner: a lot to walk. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. home prices rose again in july, thanks in part to a federal tax credit for home buyers. but consumer confidence was down this month to the lowest point since february. and former president jimmy carter was taken to a cleveland hospital after he got sick on a flight from atlanta. a grandson said he had a "stomach bug." and to hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: if you're weighing whether to rent or buy a home, we rounded up online calculators to help you sort through the pros and cons. that's on the rundown. judy woodruff talks to the co- author of a new book that looks at the "up" side of earmarks. are they good for u.s. democracy? >> brown: and
they don't take care of us. so we better feed ourselves. now through porous borders and the defectors from north korea, maybe up to 20,000 in south koreas, basically north koreans are learning that they have to change. >> warner: a lot to walk. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. home prices rose again in july, thanks in part to a federal tax credit for home buyers. but consumer confidence was down this...
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chips and software to make it difficult or impossible to use them with a competitor's parts. in agreeing to the settlement, intel does not admit wrongdoing. its general counsel, doug melamed, says intel is happy to put the matter behind it. >> we would not accept a settlement that would interfere with our ability to innovate, to continue to provide good products, excellent products to our customers, to continue to compete aggressively and offer competitive prices, and this settlement will not interfere with that, so we get to continue with our business and avoid the litigation. >> reporter: clyde montevirgen of standard and poor's says for investors, the settlement removes another big unknown hanging over the price of intel shares. >> intel has the right manufacturing and technology to continue to make superior chips moving forward. so, essentially intel's chips are differentiated to the point where they could essentially sell themselves. this is regardless of the sales tactics. because of that, we have a buy recommendation on the stock. we think they will continue to make gr
chips and software to make it difficult or impossible to use them with a competitor's parts. in agreeing to the settlement, intel does not admit wrongdoing. its general counsel, doug melamed, says intel is happy to put the matter behind it. >> we would not accept a settlement that would interfere with our ability to innovate, to continue to provide good products, excellent products to our customers, to continue to compete aggressively and offer competitive prices, and this settlement will...
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the other one instead of using magnetic fields you can use actually a 12 volt battery over the head and that also can actually increase excitable of motor cortex. these are two ways to augment activity and plasticity over targeted areas of the brain and a lot of studies are showing that these can increase and improve performance. so the dream would be the cocktail would be to take a patient early after stroke, in this window of plasticity, put them, hook them up to a robot and stimulate their brain at the same time. and potentially give them some sort of drug and with this cocktail, ramp up the amount of recovery that could occur in these patients early after stroke. >> let me go back. this notion of where you see the future of the kind of research you are doing with the deep brain stimulation. >> as you know, deep brain stimulation is now being exported if you will from the parkinson's tremor field so other movement disorders it has been successfully for distonya and other disorders characterized by excessive movement. but more strikingly, and i think remarkably for disorders, that rea
the other one instead of using magnetic fields you can use actually a 12 volt battery over the head and that also can actually increase excitable of motor cortex. these are two ways to augment activity and plasticity over targeted areas of the brain and a lot of studies are showing that these can increase and improve performance. so the dream would be the cocktail would be to take a patient early after stroke, in this window of plasticity, put them, hook them up to a robot and stimulate their...
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>> they weren't as vehement as they used to be in the past. and my sense when i proposed those arms control initiatives, when i told them that they shouldn't react militarily, maybe it made an impact on them. look, i'm not taking credit for this i'm simply saying that, maybe there's an opportunity now, you just mentioned that the north koreans and the south koreans techss have lessened a bita quiet day. maybe they're not going to respond again. they had this huge rhetoric propaganda that they put out nuclear weapons, that's the public side. on the private side this time in contrast to others that i visited i sense a little more openness, pragmatism. but they got to prove themselves, they got to show that they are serious. >> warner: all right. now let's look at one of these promises they made to you or assurances, one about let inspectors back in. now, did they put conditions on that? did they say what the situation would be? what do they have in mind? >> well, it was my proposal, margaret. what i said is, look, you expelled iaa inspectors you
>> they weren't as vehement as they used to be in the past. and my sense when i proposed those arms control initiatives, when i told them that they shouldn't react militarily, maybe it made an impact on them. look, i'm not taking credit for this i'm simply saying that, maybe there's an opportunity now, you just mentioned that the north koreans and the south koreans techss have lessened a bita quiet day. maybe they're not going to respond again. they had this huge rhetoric propaganda that...
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who are using drugs. because if we can rehabilitate more people, if we can get them off of drugs, that will also cut the demand. when they take away my tools to incarcerate people, i have great concerns that we're going to see an increase in our drug use, certainly in this community and across the state. >> reporter: and any increase in drug use means a corresponding increase in drug trafficking. >> woodruff: in mexico, the drug war continues non-stop. nearly 30,000 people have been killed since the federal government took on the cartels four years ago. and it goes on, even as more kingpins have been killed or captured. margaret warner has that story. >> warner: for that, i'm joined by nicholas casey, a correspondent for the "wall street journal" in mexico. nicholas, welcome back. when secretary of state clinton was in mexico, last year, she publicly admitted that america's, she said, insatiable demand for drugs is fueling the mexican drug wars. does the mexican government feel that the u.s. government is
who are using drugs. because if we can rehabilitate more people, if we can get them off of drugs, that will also cut the demand. when they take away my tools to incarcerate people, i have great concerns that we're going to see an increase in our drug use, certainly in this community and across the state. >> reporter: and any increase in drug use means a corresponding increase in drug trafficking. >> woodruff: in mexico, the drug war continues non-stop. nearly 30,000 people have been...
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he used to have to stand side by side with nancy pelosi and harry reid. they led health care and he followed in health care and now i think it's going to be easier for him in many ways to carve out his positions and to lean on them. >> on the gay marriage issue, when he takes this position in favor of civil unions, not gay marriage, politics were different. today, barack obama is to the right on gay marriage of dick cheney and ted olson who won the bush-gore case. and young general race who he needs to motivate. on his ability to drive the agenda, you saw two different tactics, you saw on the tax cut working out a deal with the republican leadership. on the start and on don't ask, don't tell, working around the republican leadership and getting enough republicans on board. he is testing out in a test- driveway. gwen: loophole he could drive a truck through if he believes there could be action. he might change his mind but he is not going to go out there and force it. >> he seemed to be a more liberated president in this post-election period. after the fir
he used to have to stand side by side with nancy pelosi and harry reid. they led health care and he followed in health care and now i think it's going to be easier for him in many ways to carve out his positions and to lean on them. >> on the gay marriage issue, when he takes this position in favor of civil unions, not gay marriage, politics were different. today, barack obama is to the right on gay marriage of dick cheney and ted olson who won the bush-gore case. and young general race...
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use that money to pay for tax breaks for the middle class. but the business community has been talking about how horrible it is, having a tax cut when the economy is so fragile, robbing the economy of its recovery. there are a lot of democrats who are boggling. we will see if they can deliver. i do not think they can deliver the promise. >> actually, a former member of the obama administration drew the same conclusion. >> whether we are talking about rahm emanuel or peter orszag, [inaudible] the rights and in "the new york times" calling for an extension of the tax cuts that the rich has. >> this is something that the president can draw a line on. he does have a veto power. he can decide whether or not to extend the tax cuts for the rich for a year or something like that, or not. it seems to me the best thing to do would be to pull it back for those people who make less than $200,000, and will veto anything that does not help them. >> george stephanopoulos tried to nail him down on that question, but he said he would not necessarily veto. >>
use that money to pay for tax breaks for the middle class. but the business community has been talking about how horrible it is, having a tax cut when the economy is so fragile, robbing the economy of its recovery. there are a lot of democrats who are boggling. we will see if they can deliver. i do not think they can deliver the promise. >> actually, a former member of the obama administration drew the same conclusion. >> whether we are talking about rahm emanuel or peter orszag,...
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and again basically stimulus is costless to us right now. the ode story and of course there is some truth to this the ode story is government is spending lots of money, it is pooling resources away from the private sector. if we were back in 0 viee, '07 when unemployment was four and a half, five percent, that's largely true. so if we were to go back to those years and say okay, let's have a really big stimulus package that would push up interest rates, cut business investment that would slow private sector growth. you can't tell that story today. we have very low-interest rates if the government were to borrow and spend another 3, 4, $500 billion to boost the economy, you are very hard pressed to tell the story that somehow that is going to cut back investment in the private sector. we basically have this very big hole in the economy and you know, you could like government, you could hate it, it doesn't matter. nothing else will fill the gap. >> the other thing, charlie is when you look at the examples that they give of how they want to cut
and again basically stimulus is costless to us right now. the ode story and of course there is some truth to this the ode story is government is spending lots of money, it is pooling resources away from the private sector. if we were back in 0 viee, '07 when unemployment was four and a half, five percent, that's largely true. so if we were to go back to those years and say okay, let's have a really big stimulus package that would push up interest rates, cut business investment that would slow...
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you've shown us the stalemate in iraq. has there been any movement to report in recent negotiations? are there any proposals on the table for breaking the stalemate? >> warner: well, ray, there are some proposals on the table that would help sort of power sharing arrangement between the two top vote getter, prime minister maliki, former prime minister allawi. but vice president biden came here to give the two sides a kick in the pants, if you will. and to say you have to get serious about talking to one another. and he told them that the u.s. administration is growing alarmed that some of these recent terrorist attacks we've seen aimed at government institutions-- army, police, municipal buildings-- are being encouraged by this political vacuum. so he talked you are the i do both of them. he said to maliki, "look, no one sells going to accept you as prime minister unless you give up some of the power you've accrued to yourself while prime minister." for instance, he has this 56th brigade and it's basically an army brigade
you've shown us the stalemate in iraq. has there been any movement to report in recent negotiations? are there any proposals on the table for breaking the stalemate? >> warner: well, ray, there are some proposals on the table that would help sort of power sharing arrangement between the two top vote getter, prime minister maliki, former prime minister allawi. but vice president biden came here to give the two sides a kick in the pants, if you will. and to say you have to get serious about...
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stay with us. tim estimate a talented actor whose credits include "deadwood" and "damages." his latest spronlt the new fx series "justified." here now a scene from "justified." >> let him go. >> just wait one second. consider the situation, shall we? i am a deputy, a united states marshall. we don't do these things alone, either. you know i got back-up. listening to everything right now on a little microphone here in my shirt collar. you're going to die unless you let me go. you won't be the only ones. tavis: [laughter] you're in a serious situation right there. >> yeah. yeah. that's what makes drama. tavis: that's one way to put it. i was talking to somebody about the show. it is pretty simple. shoots people. >> yeah. tavis: beats people and says if i see you back here in 24 hours i'm going shoot you. >> yeah. it is great. tavis: you enjoy this character, i take it? >> it is a kick. all of those characters are a kick. tavis: how did you end up in this role? >> they gave it to me. [laughter] i -- a year or so ago i did a couple of episodes of a show called "damages" on fx. a
stay with us. tim estimate a talented actor whose credits include "deadwood" and "damages." his latest spronlt the new fx series "justified." here now a scene from "justified." >> let him go. >> just wait one second. consider the situation, shall we? i am a deputy, a united states marshall. we don't do these things alone, either. you know i got back-up. listening to everything right now on a little microphone here in my shirt collar. you're...
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law has used against him was somewhat unconstitutional. irrepressible in the way they tried to come down the mountain. >> t outmanoeuvre the paper's owners. the telegraph became the centerpiece to the world's largest newspaper empire. but they are long gone now. >> his business success brought membership in the house of lords. >> the trusted conrad black. >> while some admire the achievements, others found them extravagant. saying that he was living a billionaires' lifestyle on a millionaire's salary. he spent the last two years in a florida jail. what now for conrad black? >> he has been vindicated and stays out of jail. those that have attacked him in this city should look out, conrad is back. >> for now he has been told that he must stay in the united states or forfeit bail. >> you are watching "bbc world news." rare access to secret kurdish guerrilla camp in iraq. telling the bbc that they could be willing. british astronomers say that they observe the biggest start detected anywhere in the universe, more than 250 times the mass of our
law has used against him was somewhat unconstitutional. irrepressible in the way they tried to come down the mountain. >> t outmanoeuvre the paper's owners. the telegraph became the centerpiece to the world's largest newspaper empire. but they are long gone now. >> his business success brought membership in the house of lords. >> the trusted conrad black. >> while some admire the achievements, others found them extravagant. saying that he was living a billionaires'...
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he will remain here until a full extradition hearing in the new year. >> good to have you with us on "bbc world news."still to come, pushing for a second turn. a senior aide to the russian president says dmitry medvedev once to stay on. some pakistani newspapers have been apologizing that seemed to reveal anti-indian comments allegedly taken from diplomatic cables released by wikileaks. the newspapers except the information was not authentic. >> this story was just too good to miss. pakistan has seen three wars with india, so anything negative about and it goes down well. this was splashed on the front pages and reported with a certain amount of glee. allegations are supposed to have come from american diplomatic cables leaked by wikileaks. those allegedly described indian generals as petulant and self obsessed. even genocidal. the indian army was accused of being -- indian spies were said to have provided support to militants in pakistan. take a look at one of the front pages from yesterday. this was from one of the leading newspapers. they talked about evidence of indian agents. if
he will remain here until a full extradition hearing in the new year. >> good to have you with us on "bbc world news."still to come, pushing for a second turn. a senior aide to the russian president says dmitry medvedev once to stay on. some pakistani newspapers have been apologizing that seemed to reveal anti-indian comments allegedly taken from diplomatic cables released by wikileaks. the newspapers except the information was not authentic. >> this story was just too...
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there aren't positions opening up for us. >> economic crisis affects us all. it doesn't affect us all equally, though. its impact is as different as the generations themselves. talk about the baby boomer, the hardest working and most affluent generation in the country. 70% of boomers say they are unemployed and looking for work. barely one in three says they have achieved the american dream. the meltdown liquidated their home values, 401k's, stock portfolios. optimism that they will achieve the dream dropped 6% from '09 and '10. the boomers are swarming the ranks of the tea party, pulling are identical to pulling data on boomers. >> are the boomers reliving their youth by taking their protest to the streets, beth? >> no, they're not. there are 80 million boomers and few people on the street now. so the boomers are right now -- doesn't mean they are happy. they are more stressed than they've ever been. half of them are losing sleep about making ends meet, but we don't see them taking to the streets in large number. >> do we see correspondent between the tea par
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you can outsource everything to us, and piece to us. we can integrate for you and provide you with the hardware and software to meet your needs. we can provide were you you with consumer insights, and your web capabilities and ecommerce capabilities. and i think, for the first time you're going to find some of these companies who haven't had very stiff competition, will go unnamed, will find h.p. at their doorstep. >> very good. i thank you. >> thank you. >> tom: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: quarterly results from fedex, oracle and research in motion, along with the producer price index for august. treasury secretary timothy geithner testifies to a senate committee on exchange rate policies. also tomorrow, going after gamers. retailer gamestop launches a new online strategy to fend off bigger competition in the brick- and-mortar world. >> suzanne: u.p.s. is making waves in the shipping industry. today, the delivery giant launched a new ocean freight service. the move highlights the importance u.p.s. is placing on internation
you can outsource everything to us, and piece to us. we can integrate for you and provide you with the hardware and software to meet your needs. we can provide were you you with consumer insights, and your web capabilities and ecommerce capabilities. and i think, for the first time you're going to find some of these companies who haven't had very stiff competition, will go unnamed, will find h.p. at their doorstep. >> very good. i thank you. >> thank you. >> tom: here's what...